{"id":1531,"date":"2021-07-29T14:11:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T07:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2021-07-29T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T07:36:06","slug":"5-fascinating-vietnamese-language-facts-that-you-dont-want-to-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/5-fascinating-vietnamese-language-facts-that-you-dont-want-to-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Fascinating Vietnamese Language Facts That You Don\u2019t Want to Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The language of Vietnam\u00a0allows\u00a0you to experience Vietnam\u2019s diverse culture in\u00a0a\u00a0genuine way.\u00a0Vietnam is a country of 54 ethnic groups and with 20 different languages.\u00a0Spoken by more than 75 million people,\u00a0Vietnamese is the\u00a0official\u00a0language\u00a0of this country since 1945\u00a0and it belongs to the Austro-Asiatic family and applies Nom script.\u00a0If you are interested in this beautiful country and its language, here are\u00a05\u00a0compelling Vietnamese language facts that you don\u2019t want to miss.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vietnamese language has six different tones<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tones play important roles in speaking Vietnamese\u00a0and accents are applied to denote six distinctive tones. These tones are\u00a0level\u00a0(ngang),\u00a0acute-angry\u00a0(s\u1eafc),\u00a0grave-lowering (huy\u1ec1n), smooth-rising (h\u1ecfi), chesty-raised (ng\u00e3), and\u00a0chesty-heavy (n\u0103ng).\u00a0Your sentence may deliver a totally different meaning if you\u00a0use an inappropriate tone.\u00a0If your mother tongue is a\u00a0non-tonal language,\u00a0learning\u00a0Vietnamese might be\u00a0a great challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vietnamese alphabet use Latin script<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vietnamese used to be written using an edited version of Chinese characters because of China\u2019s domination over the area. However,\u00a0the language was Latinized in the French colonization time.\u00a0Using Latin alphabet\u00a0is one of the main factors makes\u00a0Vietnamese\u00a0approachable to many learners, especially those from the western side. Vietnamese alphabet contains 29 letters like\u00a0the\u00a0Latin\u00a0alphabet but\u00a0F, J, W, and\u00a0Z are not included.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many borrowing words<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you know the Chinese language, you may recognize\u00a0some similarities when learning Vietnamese. The reason behind this could be the\u00a0Chinese domination\u00a0for\u00a0thousand of\u00a0years\u00a0in the area. Many common words\u00a0and terms such as\u00a0\u201cgia\u00a0\u0111\u00ecnh\u201d (family), \u201c\u0111\u1ed3ng\u00a0\u00fd\u201d (agree)\u00a0originate from the Chinese language.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only Chinese, Vietnamese language also has some influences from the French language\u00a0such as \u201c\u00e1p\u00a0ph\u00edch\u201d\u00a0(poster), \u201cban\u00a0c\u00f4ng\u201d (balcony),\u00a0\u201c\u1eafc\u00a0quy\u201d (battery). One thing may\u00a0surprise you is that the Vietnamese alphabet is actually derived from the French alphabet!\u00a0This influence also comes from the French colonization time in\u00a0Vietnam\u00a0from 1884 to 1945.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three different accents<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vietnam is generally\u00a0regarded to be divided into three main regions which are Northern, Central, and Southern and each region has different accents. Inhabitants of the North,\u00a0particularly in the Hanoi\u00a0capital, are considered to have the most standard pronunciation.\u00a0The main differences between dialects are the sounds used, some vocabulary, and pronunciation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vietnamese is the official language in the Czech Republic<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vietnamese is not only the official language of Vietnam\u00a0but also the Czech\u00a0Republic. In detail, it is\u00a0officially\u00a0recognized\u00a0as\u00a0the minority\u00a0language in this European country since 2013 with 60.000 Vietnamese-speaking\u00a0inhabitants.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vietnamese is easy to learn in terms of grammatically speaking since the language is not inflected like English or German. However, the language can be a major challenge\u00a0to some learners\u00a0because of its complex system of tones.\u00a0In general, Vietnamese is still one of the easy\u00a0languages\u00a0to learn and there are lots of resources for beginners. Above are some\u00a0fascinating Vietnamese language facts that can boost your\u00a0interest in this language. If you know more\u00a0facts about it, don\u2019t hesitate to comment below.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The language of Vietnam\u00a0allows\u00a0you to experience Vietnam\u2019s diverse culture in\u00a0a\u00a0genuine way.\u00a0Vietnam is a country of 54 ethnic groups and with 20 different languages.\u00a0Spoken by more than 75 million people,\u00a0Vietnamese is the\u00a0official\u00a0language\u00a0of this country since 1945\u00a0and it belongs to the Austro-Asiatic family and applies Nom script.\u00a0If you are interested in this beautiful country and its language, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vnlocalize.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}